NEWS
-
Summary of the 19th EASCLE Webinar: Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Hosts: Dr. Julia Leyda (NTNU Trondheim) and Dr. Katie Ritson (Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich) Participants: Lena Pfeifer, (University of Würzburg, co-coordinator) Linda Hess, (University of Augsburg, co-coordinator) Auerochs, Florian (University of Vechta) Arutyunyan, Veronika (University of Hamburg) Famà, Santi Luca (Stockholm University) Filipova, Lenka (Free University Berlin) Nurmi, Tom (Norwegian University of Science…
-
19th EASLCE Webinar: EASLCE Webinar Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Dr. Julia Leyda, NTNU Trondheim, and Dr. Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich Time and Date: 31 March 2022, 10:00 CET (Central European Time) In this seminar we will consider Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and how this translates in the context of European petrocultures. The cultural face of oil dependence has been…
-
EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine
EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…
-
UPDATE: Biennial EASLCE Conference 2022 / University of Granada (Spain) Transcreations. Creaturely encounters as cultural artefacts
UPDATE 9th Biennial EASLCE Conference / University of Granada (Spain) NEW DATES: September 12-15 2022 Transcreations – Creaturely encounters as cultural artefacts. 9th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) After two postponements due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 protocols, the local organising committee is happy…
-
CFP: W. S. Merwin Across Borders
Université de Paris/ ENS Ulm, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2022 Plenary speaker: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa “Is it I who have come to this age /or this age that has come to me.” In “Not early or late,” a poem from his last collection Garden Time, W. S. Merwin’s question speaks to the convening of this…
-
CFP: Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies
Call for Papers Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: ▪ Paola Cavalieri (Etica & Animali; The Helsinki Group, www.cetaceanrights.org) (Online) ▪ Monica Gagliano (The University of Western Australia) (In-person) ▪ Douglas Vakoch (METI International) (In-person) There have been many…
-
Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities
Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities is a bilingual, interdisciplinary volume which proposes alternatives to the myth of human exceptionalism and suggests overcoming the so-called Anthropocene while imagining just futures. This collection of essays offers critical reflections in different areas: philosophy, politics, literary analysis, artistic practice, and pedagogy. It tackles issues such as the cultural consequences…
-
Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino
Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…
-
CFP: Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe: Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures
University of Turku, 20th October 2021 Keynote speaker: Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder (Norway) “Nostalgia, Ecocatastrophe, or Sustainability? Environmental Storytelling and Ecocritical Theory” Call for Papers Nordic Summer University Study Circle ‘Narrative and Violence’ is inviting proposals for presentations for the Summer Session. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Summer Session has been exceptionally…
-
‘The Garden & The Dump’- two-day online conference
Aarhus University is pleased to announce ‘The Garden & The Dump’, a two-day online conference on the multitude of ways of seeing, thinking, and living ecology through visual art, cinema, magic and philosophy. The conference will include thesis seminars by Nicolai Skiveren and Aliya Say and feature talks by Timothy Morton, Michael Marder, and Chen…
NEWS
Submit your CFP, Book, Announcements
MEMBER LOGIN
Note: If you have questions about your membership email [email protected]
If you are having technical problems please send them to:[email protected]